National Gazetteer (1868) - Whalton

"WHALTON, a parish in the W. division of Castle ward, county Northumberland, 5 miles S.W. of Morpeth, and 14 N.W. of Newcastle. The village is situated on the How Burns, a tributary of the river Blythe. The parish includes the townships of East and West Ogle, Newham, Riplington, and Whalton. The soil is clay alternated with sand, on a subsoil of sandstone. There are quarries of freestone and limestone. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Durham, value £750. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was restored in 1783. The register dates from 1649. The Wesleyans have a chapel and newsroom. There are British schools, partially endowed, and Sunday-schools. There are traces of a Roman encampment at a farm called Camphouse, and some slight remains of Ogle Castle, surrounded by a double foss."

"NEWHAM, a township in the parish of Whalton, West division of Castle ward, county Northumberland, 8 miles S.W. of Morpeth, and 11 N.W. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There is no village, only a few farmhouses."

"OGLE, a township in the parish of Whalton, W. division of Castle Ward, county Northumberland, 6.1 miles S.W. of Morpeth. There are slight remains of the moated castle of the Ogles, in which Copeland confined David, King of Scotland, after capturing him at Neville's Cross."

"RIPLINGTON, a township in the parish of Whalton, W. division of Castle ward, county Northumberland, 6 miles S.W. of Morpeth."